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25 prayeng you all that{{th}+t+} heris this song
26 to iudge no wight nor none to blame
27 yt dothe suffise she dothe me wrong
28 and that herself doth kno the same /
29 And tho she chang it is no shame
30 theire kinde it is & hathe bene long
31 yet I pro{p2}teste she hathe no name /
32 yt dothe suffise she dothe me wrong /

Notes & Glosses

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1. There is a space between this line and the next.
2. This is an example of an ‘unneeded’ consonant, at least according to a modern perspective.

Commentary

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Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt (Rebholz 1978, 242-243), this poem was entered by H8. The speaker refuses to remain saddened by love now lost and describes the lady’s fickleness as a natural quality of a woman’s temperament. He is satisfied to have possessed the lady’s love at one time. For another example describing this perspective concerning womens’ fickleness, see the poem “Dyvers dothe vse as I have hard & kno” (77v). This poem is one of the seventeen entries where Margaret Douglas marks “and thys” (see the Commentaryon “At last withdrawe yowre cruellte” (04r-04v)).

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This is a particularly serious problem in that D is the only substantial Greek witness to the Western text of the gospels. Assessing its readings is a perennial problem of textual criticism. All we can say here is that its readings should be used with caution, especially when they do not have support from a large number of Latin witnesses.